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Phil Neville

Six days after winning 3-0 at Newcastle, Villas-Boas was still complaining about Magpies boss Pardew, claiming he made “a big scandal” of David Luiz not being sent off for a foul of Demba Ba.

Villas-Boas – whose men face league leaders Manchester City tonight at Stamford Bridge – also said Pardew (right) had been lucky to be awarded a penalty, converted by Ba, in the 1-1 draw at Old Trafford a week before.

Replying to 34-year-old Villas-Boas’ outburst on Friday, Pardew said: “Sometimes when you’ve had a defeat you have to find certain reasons why you’ve had that defeat and you voice those concerns.

“But when you’ve had a victory it’s nice to be a bit more respectful and bit more honourable in saying, ‘Well, OK, we won the game, but decisions went our way’. And that’s what I did at Man United. I said it wasn’t a penalty but we accept it and that’s it.

“I think it would be more honourable of him if he’d accepted that Luiz should have got sent off, like the referee did.”

Pardew also claimed again that centre-back Steven Taylor might not have ruptured his Achilles and be set to miss the season if Luiz had been red-carded.

“When I looked at my stats, Steven put more work-rate and effort into that game than any game he’s played this season,” he said.

“Did that maybe factor in the fact he got an injury to his Achilles? Maybe it did. If they had 10 men he might not need to work so hard.

“Because we were forcing the game there was a factor of that and it’s foolish to ignore that.

“But the guy is new to our country, he’s new to our press and I think he’s under a bit of pressure.

“I think maybe he could throw a little bit more respect at it.”

Meanwhile, Phil Neville leapt to the defence of his brother Gary after he was blasted by Villas-Boas.

The Chelsea boss launched an astonishing verbal attack on ex-Manchester United defender-turned-pundit Gary.

Villas-Boas claimed he was one of the ex-pros in the media whose views on Chelsea were “ridiculous”, “comic criticism” and “biased”.